Friday’s global IT outage caused by a software update gone wrong highlights the interconnected and often fragile nature of modern IT infrastructure. It demonstrates how a single point of failure can have far-reaching consequences. The outage was linked to a single update automatically rolled out to Crowdstrike Falcon, a ubiquitous cyber security tool used primarily… Read more »
The loss of the OceanGate submersible Titan appears to be an example of warnings ignored. “We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often,” OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush wrote in 2018, after being told he was putting lives at risk using his experimental submersible Titan to ferry… Read more »
Crisis response startup Iluminr has raised $4.2 million in a raise led by the VC arm of global insurer QBE. It’s the first time QBE Ventures has backed an early-stage Australian tech firm. Also supporting the raise were local VCs Investible, Flying Fox and Jelix Ventures, as well as US-based Rebellion Ventures. The cash is… Read more »
Antler in Australia residency 13 kicks off with more than 90 founders across 3 capitals 
Canva and Atlassian alumni raise $3.5 million Seed round for their product management startup 
WiseTech concedes there have been two more complaints about founder Richard White 
Former Sweat exec launches caravan park booking platform after $600,000 pre-Seed raise 
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